Question : Disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP - cannot browse network

What's the deal with this?  We have a TCP/IP network.  DNS Servers.  We used to have WINS servers, but I removed them.  My client is Windows XP Professional.

If I Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the WINS tab, I can no longer browse the network.  I thought this would work through DNS.  Can someone explain please?

Answer : Disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP - cannot browse network

Browsing network neighborhood is still a NetBIOS function. Always has been, probably always will be.
WINS dependency has been replaced by Dynamic DNS. Windows  XP only chages the order of name resolution to prefer DNS over WINS. You don't need WINS, but you do still need NetBios as long as you want to use Network Neighborhood functions. Everything else will work without NetBIOS enabled.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b134304
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188305